LA Times

2018-05-24T03:00:00.000000000-07:00
The only gun shop in all of Mexico is behind a fortress-like wall on a heavily guarded military base. To enter the Directorate of Arms and Munitions Sales, customers must undergo months of background checks — six documents are required — and then be frisked by uniformed soldiers. The army-run sto...

2018-05-24T03:00:00.000000000-07:00
Luis Baena shares a room with 127 other men. During the day he looks for work or sings on the streets of downtown São Paulo for a few reais. When he sits down for a meal, he feels pangs of guilt, wondering whether his wife and children back in Venezuela even have food on the table. The last time...

2018-05-23T10:50:00.000000000-07:00
A U.S. government employee stationed in China has suffered health problems “very similar” to those that afflicted several American and Canadian envoys in Cuba and led to a still-ongoing diplomatic row, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday. A health alert sent to U.S. citizens from the...

2018-05-23T10:40:00.000000000-07:00
A court in India on Wednesday ordered a stop to the expansion of a copper plant in the southern city of Tuticorin, a day after police killed 11 protesters upset about pollution caused by the factory. The Sterlite copper plant — part of the London-based metals company Vedanta — has been accused...

2018-05-22T03:00:00.000000000-07:00
India’s most famous poet, Rabindranath Tagore, once wrote that the Taj Mahal stood on the banks of the river Yamuna “like a teardrop suspended on the cheek of time.” One wonders whether the late Nobel laureate could have found a lyrical description of the latest threat facing the grand, white-mar...

2018-05-21T15:55:00.000000000-07:00
Three weeks ago, South Korean President Moon Jae-in triumphantly celebrated a successful inter-Korean summit — a precursor, it seemed, for a historic sit-down between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump. Now the summit between Kim and Trump scheduled for June 12 in Singapore at...

2018-05-21T14:00:00.000000000-07:00
The Trump administration, two weeks after it withdrew from an international arms control deal that curbed Iran’s nuclear ambitions, called Monday for a new global coalition to force the Islamic Republic to capitulate to a long list of political and military demands. In his first major policy addr...

2018-05-21T11:45:00.000000000-07:00
President Trump took steps Monday to punish Venezuela for what his administration called a fraudulent presidential election Sunday in the once-oil-rich country now devastated by economic and social crises. The action came amid a growing international rebuke of Venezuelan socialist leader Nicolas...

2018-05-21T03:00:00.000000000-07:00
Late last year, a family in north London contacted the Bonhams auction house and asked one of its experts on African art to come see a painting that might solve a decades-old mystery. In 1973 and 1974, the Nigerian modernist Ben Enwonwu painted three portraits of Princess Adetutu Ademiluyi. The...

2018-05-20T20:35:00.000000000-07:00
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro won reelection Sunday in a vote marred by an opposition boycott and a victory that critics viewed as illegitimate. According to a bulletin issued by the National Electoral Council with 93% of the ballots counted, Maduro won with 5,823,728 votes, or 68% of votes...

2018-05-24T13:27:51.000000000-04:00
Malaysia’s new government faces an awkward problem: Having renewed the investigation into 1MDB, it must now decide how far it should pursue companies that played supporting roles in a massive financial swindle.

2018-05-24T13:19:46.000000000-04:00
The European Union settled its multiyear antitrust case against Gazprom, clinching promises of cheaper natural-gas flows from Russia as President Trump demands the bloc taps U.S. energy exports and cuts its dependence on Moscow.

2018-05-24T12:39:42.000000000-04:00
Taiwan lost its second diplomatic partner in less than a month as the West African state of Burkina Faso severed relations amid a Chinese campaign to suppress international recognition of the self-ruled island.

2018-05-24T12:12:31.000000000-04:00
When reporter Anatoly Kurmanaev started covering the country five years ago, the petrodollar-fueled party was still raging, but the greed and incompetence of the ruling party soon began to take their devastating toll

2018-05-24T10:55:30.000000000-04:00
A top Greek court granted asylum to a Turkish soldier Ankara accuses of involvement in the country’s 2016 coup attempt, inflaming tensions between NATO allies that are already at their highest levels in decades.

2018-05-24T08:51:19.000000000-04:00
A senior North Korean official renewed a threat to call off a Kim-Trump summit and warned that Pyongyang could “make the U.S. taste an appalling tragedy it has neither experienced nor even imagined.”

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The Guardian

2018-05-24T16:59:17.000000000+00:00
I’m adamantly pro-choice, but was ambivalent about liberalising UK laws. The Irish referendum has changed all thatThey came from Los Angeles, from Bangkok, from Sydney, from Buenos Aires; from all four corners of the globe. One woman said her plane ticket was a birthday present from her boyfriend...

2018-05-24T16:57:41.000000000+00:00
Museum to show rare artefacts alongside ethnically diverse human remainsArchaeologists at the Museum of London have found a scrap of treasure missed by tomb raiders who broke into a Roman sarcophagus 300 years ago. Continue reading...

2018-05-24T16:45:12.000000000+00:00
Two Columbine-obsessed teenagers stockpiled bomb-making materials, court heardTwo teenage boys have been found guilty of plotting to kill pupils and teachers at their North Yorkshire school after developing an obsession with the Columbine massacre.The boys, who were 14 when their plans were uncov...

2018-05-24T16:43:45.000000000+00:00
Victims’ mother called police at least five times in the weeks before attack, court hearsTwo men have been given life sentences for murdering four children in a petrol-bomb attack at the home of their older brother, with whom they were feuding.Zak Bolland, 23, and his friend David Worrall, 25, we...

2018-05-24T16:21:05.000000000+00:00
Companies ‘should bend over backwards to help passengers’ amid rail chaos, says Which?A consumer watchdog has accused rail companies of “adding insult to injury” by blocking people on social media when they complain.Which? said Northern rail – which cancelled hundreds of trains this week during t...

2018-05-24T16:15:14.000000000+00:00
Group of MPs to campaign on issue following recent case of six-year-old Alfie DingleyDoctors in the House of Commons are to lead a campaign to change the law banning the medicinal use of cannabis, as a new all-party parliamentary group (APPG) forms to campaign for the issue. Dan Poulter, a former...

2018-05-24T15:52:46.000000000+00:00
Hayat Elsanosi said her family lost faith in the UK after Fathia Ali Ahmed Elsanosi died in fireThe sister of a Sudanese teacher who came to the UK as a refugee and died in Grenfell Tower has told the public inquiry into the disaster: “Our trust in this country has been destroyed.”Hayat Elsanosi ...

2018-05-24T15:48:34.000000000+00:00
Number of Romanian nationals living in UK in 2017 estimated to be 411,000, up 25% on 2016There are now more Romanians living in the UK than there are Irish nationals or Indians, official figures reveal.Romania has overtaken the Republic of Ireland and India to move from fourth to second most-comm...

2018-05-24T15:48:31.000000000+00:00
Pippa Crerar is joined by Eoin Carolan, Lisa O’Carroll, Sinéad Baker and Jim Waterson to discuss this week’s referendum in Ireland. Plus Vikram Dodd on how Sajid Javid has been received by the police and Mark Lilla on Democrats, the left and identity politicsIreland goes to the polls this week in...

2018-05-24T09:03:41.662000000+00:00
Laws giving women a "safe zone" around NSW abortion clinics, free from protesters and activists, have passed their first legislative hurdle after a day of debate and protest.

2018-05-24T08:30:43.720000000+00:00
A federal tribunal regularly lampooned by right-wing politicians and pundits for saving criminals from deportation has defended its handling of the rare and high-profile cases.

2018-05-24T08:30:43.711000000+00:00
The Northern Territory prison guards who cloaked teenaged detainee Dylan Voller in a spit hood and strapped him to a restraint chair, forcibly stripped him naked or tear-gassed him won't face criminal prosecution.

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Fox News

2018-05-24T17:00:00.000000000+00:00
A London couple delusionally obsessed with a former boy-band star were found guilty Thursday of murdering their French nanny and burning her body on a bonfire in their backyard.

2018-05-24T16:40:33.000000000+00:00
The United Nations nuclear watchdog says Iran appears to be complying with a 2015 deal with major powers that was meant to stop it from developing nuclear weapons in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.

2018-05-24T16:09:50.000000000+00:00
Burundi's main opposition coalition has asked the constitutional court to invalidate the results of last week's referendum on constitutional changes to allow the president to stay in power until 2034.

2018-05-24T16:06:22.000000000+00:00
The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution that for the first time recognizes the link between conflict and hunger and condemns the use of starvation as a method of warfare.

2018-05-24T15:54:51.000000000+00:00
A U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish group has detained a high-profile French Islamic State fighter in northern Syria who has been linked to terror attacks in Paris and Nice in 2015 and 2016, the group announced Thursday.

2018-05-24T15:52:17.000000000+00:00
A spokesman for former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli says the ex-leader is dropping his legal efforts to fight extradition from the United States to Panama.

2018-05-24T15:03:41.000000000+00:00
The U.N. chief said Thursday he is "deeply concerned" by the cancellation of the planned summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un.

2018-05-24T17:26:10.000000000+00:00
Trump told Kim that "based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting"

2018-05-24T14:25:21.000000000+00:00
President Trump canceled plans for a summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un next month. In a letter to Kim, Mr. Trump says a meeting at this time is "inappropriate." CBS News' Weijia Jiang, senior global affairs contributor Ian Bremmer, and Ben Tracy in North Korea report.

2018-05-24T12:24:27.000000000+00:00
The U.S. Embassy in China has issued a health alert after a consular employee apparently suffered a brain injury. The U.S. official stationed in Guangzhou reported strange sounds and sensations beginning last year. This case appears to be similar to what happened to two dozen Americans at the U.S...

2018-05-24T11:56:14.000000000+00:00
North Korea issued stark threats overnight warning of a new nuclear showdown if the U.S. pulls out of next month's summit. Also, newly released bodycam video shows officers throwing NBA rookie Sterling Brown to the ground and shocking him with a taser. All that and all that matters in today's Eye...

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CBC

2018-05-24T13:20:03.000000000-04:00
Morgan Freeman is apologizing to work colleagues 'who felt uncomfortable or disrepected' by him, following a CNN report alleging sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour by the veteran actor.

2018-05-24T12:35:20.000000000-04:00
The self-driving technology deployed in an Uber which struck and killed a woman crossing the street in Arizona recently, noted a pedestrian was on the road, but didn't stop, a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board says.

2018-05-24T12:22:08.000000000-04:00
Canada is still open to working with China in the future, despite killing the massive takeover of Canadian construction company Aecon Group Inc. by Chinese interests, says Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains.

2018-05-24T10:49:32.000000000-04:00
​The Ontario Liberals release an audio recording that allegedly features Doug Ford trying to sell "bogus memberships" to help secure the nomination of the PC candidate in his home riding.

2018-05-24T10:31:42.000000000-04:00
Environment Canada meteorologists are releasing their predictions for the upcoming 2018 hurricane season today at a news conference in Dartmouth. The six-month Atlantic hurricane season officially starts June 1.

2018-05-24T10:01:24.000000000-04:00
President Donald Trump said the U.S. is walking away from a planned June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, citing "open hostility" in Kim's most recent statement.

2018-05-24T10:00:21.000000000-04:00
Residents of a northwestern Ontario First Nation who have been diagnosed with mercury poisoning are up to six times more likely to suffer from a wide range of debilitating health problems, a new report finds.

2018-05-24T09:55:17.000000000-04:00
More than 600 people from Little Grand Rapids and 45 from nearby Pauingassi First Nation were evacuated from the fly-in communities Wednesday, with hundreds more expected to leave Thursday as a massive fire continues to burn near the eastern Manitoba communities.

2018-05-24T09:34:00.000000000-04:00
Scientists in Hawaii have captured rare images of blue flames burning from cracks in the pavement as Kilauea volcano gushes fountains of lava in the background, offering a look at a new dimension in the volcano's weeks-long eruption.

2018-05-24T16:12:00.000000000+01:00
Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman has apologised to a group of women who have made allegations against him, saying it was never his intention to make anyone feel uneasy.

2018-05-24T16:10:13.000000000+00:00
Watch Mark Wood's dismissal as England lose their final five wickets for 16 runs as they collapse to 184 all out against Pakistan on the first day of the first Test at Lord's.

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Reuters

2018-05-24T13:43:22.000000000-04:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a posthumous pardon to boxer Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight champion who was jailed a century ago after having a relationship with a white woman.

2018-05-24T13:42:33.000000000-04:00
(Reuters) - A U.S. threat that it may introduce tariffs on foreign auto imports drew strong criticism on Thursday from the country's main business lobbying group, which warned a "staggering" blow to the industry and the prospect of a global trade war.

2018-05-24T13:35:21.000000000-04:00
ROME (Reuters) - A new government is expected to take office in Italy next week after one of the longest periods of post-election flux in its history, but the fraught gestation might prove child's play by comparison with what comes next.

2018-05-24T13:27:28.000000000-04:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a pardon for the late boxer Jack Johnson, an African-American convicted a century ago for the crime of taking a woman across state lines, saying the move corrected a wrong in American history.

2018-05-24T13:25:47.000000000-04:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday rejected a push by moderate congressional Republicans for a "Dreamer" immigration deal, saying he would only back sweeping immigration legislation that met all of his demands, including a U.S-Mexico border wall.

2018-05-24T13:18:53.000000000-04:00
(Reuters) - At least eight women have accused actor Morgan Freeman of inappropriate behavior or harassment while working with them on film sets or at promotional events, CNN reported on Thursday.

2018-05-24T13:17:55.000000000-04:00
LA MALBAIE, Quebec (Reuters) - A move by the United States to explore tariffs on auto imports is based on flimsy logic and is clearly linked to talks to modernize the NAFTA trade pact, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday.

2018-05-24T12:59:14.000000000-04:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers, including a senior Democrat, went to the Justice Department for first of two planned classified briefings on Thursday from FBI and intelligence officials on an FBI probe into Russian election meddling after President Donald Trump made unsubstantiated claims ...

2018-05-24T12:43:56.000000000-04:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers, including senior Democrats, will receive classified briefings from FBI and intelligence officials on Thursday on an FBI probe into Russian election meddling after President Donald Trump made unsubstantiated claims about a "spy" being used against his campaign.

2018-05-24T12:41:03.000000000-04:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday called off a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un scheduled for next month, citing Pyongyang's "open hostility," and warned that the U.S. military was ready in the event of any reckless acts by North Korea.

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Yahoo!

2018-05-24T13:16:43.000000000-04:00
President Trump’s abrupt decision to cancel his upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was surprising and predictable at the same time. The withdrawal was surprising, if only because Mr. Trump had seemed so invested in it, from the moment he orchestrated its dramatic announcement b...

2018-05-24T13:05:24.000000000-04:00
Is the political climate over climate change finally changing for the better in Washington? Perhaps, if you listen to the buzz about a bipartisan effort in Congress to take action on carbon emissions from the use of coal, oil, and natural gas. In February, lawmakers of both parties supported a ...

2018-05-24T06:00:01.000000000-04:00
Mauritania, climate change has pushed women into leadership roles. Lengthy periods of drought have significantly reduced the amount of available grazing land in this West African nation, forcing herders to travel long distances to feed and water their herds. While the herders are away, their wi...

2018-05-23T16:58:13.000000000-04:00
Minutes after Imad walked into the kibbutz dining hall just over two weeks ago he was engulfed by a wave of Israelis hurrying to him with open arms, pulling him in for long hugs. It had been over a decade since this Palestinian man in his 50s, a resident of Gaza, had seen these friends or steppe...

2018-05-23T14:59:25.000000000-04:00
If President Trump’s anticipated summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un actually takes place on June 12, perhaps no one will deserve more credit than a person who prefers not to take credit: President Moon Jae-in of South Korea. The former humans rights lawyer, whose parents were refugees f...

2018-05-22T17:07:13.000000000-04:00
As he has watched the aftermath of school shootings this year – including a massacre Friday in Santa Fe, Texas – Carson Collins has felt the pressure to grieve and move on. Carson, a senior, was one of those locked in a classroom, ready along with his fellow students to charge the shooter in the...

2018-05-22T16:53:28.000000000-04:00
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson tried to be as polite and diplomatic as possible in assessing the Trump administration’s post-nuclear-deal Plan B for dealing with Iran. Point 1: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – who on Monday announced the new plan, which aims to “crush” Iran with “the st...

2018-05-22T15:59:16.000000000-04:00
It was April 7, 2012, and on the dusty floor of his tiny pharmacy, Vincent Anibueze was waiting to die. Anibueze thought of what Aisha would do when he was gone. Back when they first met and her mother had forbidden her to marry him, a Christian, Aisha had stood her ground.

2018-05-22T14:42:57.000000000-04:00
As befits its reputation for generosity, Canada is ranked in the top four of nations most accepting of migrants, according to a recent Gallup poll. This distinction may help explain why, as the host of a Group of Seven summit of major Western leaders, Canada has invited a most unlikely guest to ...

2018-05-21T17:02:08.000000000-04:00
President Trump has been attacking his own Federal Bureau of Investigation for months. The fundamental assumption behind many of his charges is this: In its actions regarding the Russia probe, the bureau is propelled by political bias against him. Mr. Trump’s anger over an alleged FBI “informan...

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News.com.au

2018-05-24T16:47:55.836000000+00:00
IRISH voters are preparing to go to the polls in a tense referendum that could legalise abortion, as the opposing sides use the final hours to win a debate that has divided the country.

2018-05-24T16:03:58.257000000+00:00
HUMAN remains discovered in a drainage pipe at a Little Rock park, Arkansas, were identified as those of a teenager who was last seen in the area before disappearing two and a half years ago, authorities have confirmed.

2018-05-24T10:33:48.925000000+00:00
PUDGY-faced playboy Jho Low, who romanced Hollywood starlets and gave $9 million in jewels to model Miranda Kerr, is being sought over missing billions in the Malaysian corruption scandal.

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Russia Today

2018-05-24T17:41:00.000000000+00:00
There is no independent policy in Kiev, they do everything in conjunction with the US, and new sanctions against Russian media reinforce those suspicions, executive editor of 21st Century Wire.com Patrick Henningsen told RT. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T17:32:48.000000000+00:00
State visits are not only about food for thought, but actual food as well, with caviar, sturgeon, venison and cold borscht with goat cheese revealed on the menu for Vladimir Putin’s dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:56:13.000000000+00:00
Labour MP David Lammy and Toby Young, the Spectator writer and free schools advocate, have rekindled their war of words on social media concerning the explanation to Oxford University’s lack of black British students. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:40:51.000000000+00:00
USA Gymnastics officials approved a plan to withhold information as to why Larry Nassar wouldn’t be attending gymnastics events in 2015 instead of confirming he was being probed for sexual abuse allegations, it has been reported. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:37:13.000000000+00:00
Two teenage boys with a "very real interest in violence" and obsessed with the Columbine school massacre, have been found guilty of planning a similar-style attack on a North Yorkshire school. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:34:00.000000000+00:00
The US Treasury Department has hit Iran with new and heavy sanctions. They target several Iranian airlines that the US claims were delivering weapons to proxy forces in Syria and Lebanon.
Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:33:34.000000000+00:00
As the German right-wing party AfD prepares for a convention next month, a 44-page guide has been released for people who want to arrive at the scene and riot against them. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:23:01.000000000+00:00
The first day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) has seen various discussions on ways of ditching the US currency which dominates global trade.
Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:17:11.000000000+00:00
UK’s international intelligence service, MI6, has launched their first ever TV ad to attract mothers from black and ethnic minority backgrounds, in a bid to create a more diverse and emotionally intelligent spy workforce. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:12:24.000000000+00:00
In Yulia Skripal’s first televised statement since being poisoned by a nerve agent, she looked better than could be expected given her ordeal. So what did we learn from her public appearance, and what new questions were raised? Read Full Article at RT.com

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Russian Times

2018-05-24T16:56:13.000000000+00:00
Labour MP David Lammy and Toby Young, the Spectator writer and free schools advocate, have rekindled their war of words on social media concerning the explanation to Oxford University’s lack of black British students. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:40:51.000000000+00:00
USA Gymnastics officials approved a plan to withhold information as to why Larry Nassar wouldn’t be attending gymnastics events in 2015 instead of confirming he was being probed for sexual abuse allegations, it has been reported. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:37:13.000000000+00:00
Two teenage boys with a "very real interest in violence" and obsessed with the Columbine school massacre, have been found guilty of planning a similar-style attack on a North Yorkshire school. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:34:00.000000000+00:00
The US Treasury Department has hit Iran with new and heavy sanctions. They target several Iranian airlines that the US claims were delivering weapons to proxy forces in Syria and Lebanon.
Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:33:34.000000000+00:00
As the German right-wing party AfD prepares for a convention next month, a 44-page guide has been released for people who want to arrive at the scene and riot against them. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:23:01.000000000+00:00
The first day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) has seen various discussions on ways of ditching the US currency which dominates global trade.
Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:17:11.000000000+00:00
UK’s international intelligence service, MI6, has launched their first ever TV ad to attract mothers from black and ethnic minority backgrounds, in a bid to create a more diverse and emotionally intelligent spy workforce. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:12:24.000000000+00:00
In Yulia Skripal’s first televised statement since being poisoned by a nerve agent, she looked better than could be expected given her ordeal. So what did we learn from her public appearance, and what new questions were raised? Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:05:19.000000000+00:00
FIFA has announced the slogans chosen by fans to adorn the official buses of the 32 teams at this summer’s World Cup in Russia. Hosts Russia will have the uplifting ‘Play with an open heart’ on their bus. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-05-24T16:00:00.000000000+00:00
After cancelling a long-awaited summit with Kim Jong-un, President Donald Trump warned North Korea that US military ‘more ready than ever before.’ The fallout comes hours after Pyongyang dismantled its nuclear testing site.
Read Full Article at RT.com